The battle just now made Li Zicheng feel very satisfied. Although they still failed to break through the city wall, it can be seen that the defenders are really reluctant to attack the people, and the camp has also caused some casualties to the other side.

In addition, in the end, the Qin soldiers finally went on a killing spree, and to a certain extent, planted the seeds of hatred in the hearts of the common people. Under the instigation of the thieves, many people said that they wanted to avenge their dead relatives, and they would follow Li Zicheng to fight the world with all their hearts in the future.

Li Zicheng was of course overjoyed, and immediately ordered the distribution of weapons to this group of people, treating them as soldiers who broke into the camp. Therefore, after the battle, the number of people who broke into the camp not only did not decrease, but increased by about 1,000. In fact, today's set of camps has been tried and tested repeatedly, so the team can grow stronger and stronger.

After more than a day of fighting, Li Zicheng had roughly figured out the strength of the troops in the city. He thought to himself, how could just these two or three thousand people resist the continuous attack of his tens of thousands of troops. The battle just now had already killed and wounded dozens of them, and as long as they came twice, the opponent's strength was reduced to a certain extent, and it would no longer be possible to organize dense bird shooting, and then it would be the turn of the elite who broke into the camp to attack the city.

Therefore, after a short rest, the second wave of attacks on the camp began immediately, still with the people as the precursor, and a small number of rogues and archers mixed in, waiting for an opportunity to release cold arrows at the city.

The attack went exceptionally well, and soon advanced to the inner moat. The birds' guns and bows and arrows at the head of the city were also sparsely placed, causing little damage to the besieging team.

Li Zicheng and the others were overjoyed when they saw it in the back, and the defenders of the Heart Dao finally couldn't hold it anymore! He immediately ordered the authentic thieves to push the ladder upward, and for the sake of insurance, the first batch was only sent up with four ladders, in case the defenders eased up again, the loss would not be too great.

This ladder, also known as a ladder truck, is actually a vehicle equipped with wheels that can be pushed forward. The ladder on the vehicle is divided into two sections, one of which is fixed on the body of the vehicle, which is called the main ladder; The other section is connected with the main ladder with a rotating shaft in the front section, which is called the auxiliary ladder.

The secondary ladder is usually folded on top of the main ladder, and when it is flipped up close to the city wall, the length of the ladder can be greatly increased. When encountering a moat, you can continue to flip down to form a ladder bridge.

In the era of cold weapons, ladder trucks can be called a sharp weapon against tall city walls. These ladder carts were originally owned by the official army, but the Ming army had not attacked the city for so many years, and only defended the city, so these equipment were all shelved. As a result, after the thieves broke through the county seat, they pocketed these ladder trucks and dealt with the officials and soldiers in turn.

And Qin Bing didn't seem to have much to do about these ladder carts, just fired a few shots, fired a few arrows, and shot down a few thieves who pushed the cart, but the cart itself was not damaged. The most important thing in the camp is that there is no shortage of people, so they changed people and continued to push the cart forward, and soon came to the moat.

The ladder truck was immediately deployed, and four ladder bridges were erected over the moat. The thieves and the common people climbed over the ladder bridge and rushed under the city walls. The commander of the front line this time was Hao Shaoqi, the general of the forward battalion, who immediately shouted: "Cut the iron cable of the drawbridge!" ”

As soon as everyone rushed up, a dozen thieves with good skills climbed to the top of the suspended suspension bridge, aimed at the iron cables on both sides* and cut down. But the iron ropes are the thickness of the bowl mouth, and ordinary blades will collapse when they are chopped up, and they will not have any effect.

Hao Shaoqi looked anxious, so he shouted: "Get out of the way!" As he spoke, he snatched a large axe from the thief beside him, climbed up the drawbridge, picked up the axe, and slashed at the place where the iron cable and the drawbridge were connected.

After all, the suspension bridge was wooden, and Hao Shaoqi was infinitely powerful, and cut off the connection in a few clicks. The drawbridge was pulled by the iron cables, and immediately fell with a bang, and lay across the moat.

"Rush!" The thieves were greatly encouraged by the courage of the lord, and pushed four ladder carts across the drawbridge, and soon carried the secondary ladder up to the top of the city.

At this time, the defenders seemed to have lost the courage to fight, except for some soldiers who were still firing arrows into the city, those who were still extremely powerful just now, but at this time began to give up the defense and fled into the city.

Li Zicheng saw it really in the back, and couldn't help laughing and said: "I thought how powerful the defenders were, it turned out that they were all greedy for life and afraid of death!" Relying on the city wall and the birds, you can still resist for a while; Now that it's time for hand-to-hand combat, I'm so scared that I'm running away! Come on, throw in all the ladder trucks and storm the city! ”

At the sound of an order, the general attack of the thieves finally began. The remaining dozen or so ladder trucks were also pushed out, which was already all the belongings of the camp.

At the same time, Hao Shaoqi has already taken the lead, climbing the ladder to kill the city! The defenders of the city, however, had no intention of fighting, and had already run out by the time he was halfway up. Hao Shaoqi originally wanted to kill for a while, but he didn't touch anyone, and he couldn't help but be very depressed.

However, since he had successfully landed in the city, Hao Shaoqi didn't have time to think about it, and immediately ordered the thieves who followed him to open the city gate. As soon as the city gate opened, the common people and thieves swarmed in, and the outer city of Qinwangzhuang fell!

But what he saw next surprised all the thieves! It turns out that within this wall, there is an even stronger inner wall! Between the inner and outer walls, there are not many ordinary buildings, but small fortresses made of bluestone.

However, since he had broken through the outer city, Hao Shaoqi secretly thought that the morale of the defenders had been seriously shaken, and it was only a matter of time before he broke through the inner city. He went to the front line to fight this time, and he really wanted to take the lead in order to replace Gao Jie's position.

Therefore, he ordered his men and horses to ascend the outer city walls first, especially to control the four city gates. When the soldiers and horses of other generals rushed in, they asked their subordinate generals to deliberately create a little congestion at the city gate to prevent them from entering the city smoothly. In short, this great achievement of breaking through the inner city must not be robbed by others.

Seeing that the overall situation was basically under control, Hao Shaoqi immediately asked his subordinates to push the ladder cart and went straight to the inner city wall. But this time the march was not so smooth, and the distribution of the small forts was disorganized, and many of them were blocked in the middle of the road, making it difficult for the huge ladder trucks to pass through.

What is even more annoying is that the fortress itself has no doors, but there are small windows above. I don't know how the defenders got up, but they hid inside, and kept firing birds and arrows!

And this time the Qin soldiers also learned to be obedient, they did not fight the empty-handed common people, but only the thieves with weapons. Because of the proximity, both the bird and the bow and arrow were shot extremely accurately, and in a short time, more than 100 thieves were killed and wounded, but few ordinary people were injured by mistake.

Hao Shaoqi was furious when he saw this scene, and roared: "Dozens of people surround one, take all these fortresses for me!" For the rest, I'll attack the city at once! ”

At the same time, Zhu Youzhen, who was commanding the battle at the head of the inner city, also nervously ordered: "The whole army is ready!" The next time the king gives the order, it will be the time for the whole army to attack! ”